Jon Stevens wrote:
>
> There is nothing wrong with putting the version number on
> the .jar file and it help WAY to many people to do so.
I'm sure that putting the version number in a conspiquous place has helped
innumerable people.
However, as Craig pointed out:
>
> That makes building scripts dependent on these packages
> much more painful than it needs to be -- it's not enough
> to know what directory you've got these packages in, you
> have to specify the version number as well.
In concrete terms, to build jakarta tomcat 4.0 with the latest regexp, one
needs to do the following:
-Dregexp.home=D:\jakarta-regexp\jakarta-regexp-1.2
-Dregexp.jar=D:\jakarta-regexp\jakarta-regexp-1.2\jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar
To me, the last like seems to be kinda over doing it a bit ;-)
What I would prefer, and would be much more consistent with the
overwhelming majority of existing jakarta projects is "build dist" produced
the following jar file:
D:\dist\jakarta-regexp-1.2\regexp.jar
Additionally, I would be in favor of standardizing - even if it is only
across jakarta projects - a mechanism for embedding the version number in a
standard location inside the jar file itself.
- Sam Ruby
